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| - - - | Title: “Dial 999” Films, 1958-1959 Quantity: 39 film reels Call Number: DA 333-371 Abstract: Thirty-nine episodes of Dial 999, a half-hour syndicated crime series about a Royal Canadian mounted policeman assigned to study British methods of crime detection at Scotland Yard. All the films are 16mm prints in black and white with sound. Each episode is approximately 950 feet long. |
| Chapelle, Dickey, 1918-1965 | Title: Dickey Chapelle Papers, 1933-1967 Quantity: 7.5 c.f. (18 archives boxes and 2 volumes), 5 tape recordings, 1 film, and photographs Call Number: U.S. Mss 87AF; Audio 437A; CA 530; PH 3301 Abstract: Papers of Dickey Chapelle, a photographer and writer who was one of the first women foreign correspondents to cover World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and military struggles worldwide, particularly against communism. Her work appeared in Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Look, and Saturday Evening Post. Chapelle was killed in Vietnam in 1965. The bulk of the collection is comprised of drafts, notes, notebooks, photograph captions, and reference material for her articles, and drafts of two autobiographies, Trouble I've Asked For (1960) and What's a Woman Doing Here? (1961), which won the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Memorial Award. An important portion of Chapelle's articles concern Vietnam. There is a small amount of material co-authored by her former husband, Anthony Chapelle, also a photographer, and files on the couple's post-World War II public relations work for the American Friends Service Committee. |
| - - - | Title: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography Rejected Entries, 1950s Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 2 half-sized cartons) Call Number: Wis Mss SY Abstract: Brief biographical sketches compiled for subjects who were excluded from the final published volume of the Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison, 1960). |
| Becker, Dismas P., 1936- | Title: Dismas P. Becker Papers, 1966-1974 Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 9 Abstract: Papers of Dismas P. Becker, a community organizer and former Catholic priest, who became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. With Father James Groppi, Becker was an active participant in welfare rights activities in Milwaukee, and in demonstrations in Madison to protest the threatened cutback in funding of welfare. The collection includes fragmentary records of his work with various Milwaukee welfare groups, in particular with the Council on Urban Life (of the Milwaukee archdiocese) and the Milwaukee County Welfare Rights Organization. The papers consist of by-laws and constitutions of the organizations, membership lists, financial records, and minutes of meetings. A few personal papers are also present, including a campaign pamphlet, newspaper clippings illustrating Becker's personal involvement in the demonstrations, a small amount of correspondence, and several written reports and papers. |
| Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers' International Union | Title: Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers' International Union Records, 1941-1996 Quantity: 8.0 c.f. Call Number: M2001-027; M2001-184 Abstract: Records, 1941-1996, of the Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers’ International Union, a labor union principally representing affiliates in the alcoholic beverage industry. The materials document the organizational and administrative activities of the union and some of its chapters through by-laws, board meeting minutes, convention proceedings, charters, bargaining agreements, and reports. |